This has not been a good 5 hours.
Had a working copy of Windows 8 last night.
This morning it says the installation failed so I need to reinstall.
Reinstall failed saying the same thing.
Was going to just put 7 back on.
Gpu failed to post with the msi 790 fx board getting stuck on 2a
Restarted a few times and now the cpu won't post and stuck on ff. Any thoughts?

Power supply was tested a few days ago for another machine and it worked as well

Edit: I'm finally into being able to reinstall windows 7 so I'll be doing that and hope and pray that everything goes properly. If I can get there then I can at least do a few more tests that I'm familiar with.

I thought that was maybe what you meant (and though I may have been young, I was old enough to be capable of long-term memory).

I didn't get it because...well...Visiontek hasn't done anything GeForce in a long time, and when they did, I don't remember it being anything particularly notable. I think there are other reasons too, but for now, this is appropriate.

My apologies. It is an amd. I missed the joke as well but I'm glad it's not the nvidia relic haha.

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relic There was a time that I could only afford the 7900GS, and I would salivate over the 7950GTX or GX2. Before that I had an x1300, and before that an x200 integrated, a 9800PRO, and an ATI 7500, and VIA integrated.

Me and a buddy had to install a voodoo2 before we could play darkstone or omikron: the nomad soul, forget which one. Worked like a charm and made some other games run faster, like Total War: Kingdoms. We could also use advanced graphics options in some games. FFVii and FFViii ran faster, and had more options available to us.

To OP: are you going to be able to test with another PSU? even borrowed would be helpful.

Yep still able to do an amazon exchange. I put the exchange order in before I could confirm it because I had some suspicions even when it was first running win8. Furmark had some mad screen tearing but I figured it was the driver because I hadn't installed it due to forgetting then lack of time.
Much happier to have a working 5850 in it now til the replacement arrives